Monday, August 31, 2009

One of my biggest hangups about switching from my trusty old Treo 700p to the Palm PRE was the loss of my legacy apps. Jewish applications have been an important part of the Palm experience since my old M500. That's why I was more the a little psyched to see two new Jewish Applications (Shabbos Zmanim and a Kosher Restaurant guide) in the PRE App Store (err . . . App Catalog) yesterday.

Looking at the reviews, however, I was shocked to see the number of Anti-Semitic comments left by the moronic masses!

Our first Palm Pre application was just pushed to the App Catalog. We are very excited about this and you can learn more about the Shabbat Shalom Palm Pre App at our site or download it for free in the App Catalog.

What was interesting was that as soon as Palm announced these apps, the anti-semitism began and a couple (check out the Kosher2Go app) of the Jewish apps already (within an hour) have Anti-Semitic reviews. Here is a picture of the review:

Honestly, I can say I am not surprised. I am a bit surprised how quick it was, because it took some time for our iPhone apps to get hit with these types of reviews. But Palm is actually acting on removing them now, whereas with Apple, they really never removed them - not until they added the policy that people who review apps must buy them. So kudos to Palm!

Now I just can't wait for the Chitas apps to roll out!

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-E: Yeah, it gives zmanim (check out the screen shot on the app's site I linked to). The comments had little to do with the content or purpose of the application itself, but rather with ignorance in general. One commenter on that app, and the Kosher Restaurant finder one, was appalled that there were Jewish apps and no Xtian one. He took it as a sign that Palm is controlled by Jews. These guys are screwy 'tis all.